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03/18/2018

Welcome to another The Stamp Review Crew Hop!! We are a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators who will be bringing you lots of ideas for one particular stamp set twice a month!! The 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, you can hop along from one blog to the next gathering all kinds of inspiration for one Stampin' Up! stamp set. Please note the blog doesn't officially start until Monday March 19, 2018 so some of the links may not work.

If you are following the hop in order you just arrived from Kelly's BLOGwhere she showed you all something fabulous!

We are featuring the Bubble Over Photopolymer Stamp Set item #145868 from the 2018 Occasions Stampin' Up! Catalog. When I saw this in the catalog I totally fell in love with it and is a must have!

You can purchase this as a bundle too and save 10%! Please note they don't come on magnets this is how I store my framelits :)

I had to be different and not use the matching Bubbles & Fizz Designer Series Paper that coordinates with it from the Sale-a-bration catalog. ;) I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could do it. lol Instead I used the Myths & Magic Designer Series Paper and Picture Perfect Party Designer Series Paper.

Rubber Redneck Quick Shots:

I created a card base out of Dapper Denim.

Cut a piece of Basic Gray and Whisper White card stock. I used the stamp from Bubble Over Stamp Set to create my own paper pattern by stamping in Dapper Denim Ink (soon to retire in-color) onto the Whisper White.

I added the Myths & Magic Designer Series Paper in two different patterns to the card base.

A piece of Picture Perfect Party Designer Series Paper to work in another fun color.

I added a piece of 1/4 Stitched Rich Razzleberry Ribbon across the Picture Perfect Designer Series Paper.

I die cut out a piece of Silver Glimmer Paper using the Big Shot and the Layering Circles Framelits.

Stamp the bottle in Basic Gray Ink onto Whisper White card stock then zip it through the Big Shot with the Bottles & Bubbles Framelits to die cut it out.

Attach some Black Mini Sequin Trim and Silver Metallic Thread to the back of the bottle and attach over the Silver Glimmer Paper.

Die cut out a piece of Fresh Fig card stock using the Big Shot and Bottles & Bubbles Framelits. Attach to the bottle with a Stampin' Dimensional.

Stamp the birthday greeting in Dapper Denim Ink onto Whisper White card stock. Zip through the Big Shot with the Bottles & Bubbles Framelits die cutting it out and glue to the Fresh Fig card stock on the bottle.

To finish add some Glitter Enamel Shapes. I love these so much the really dress up any project!

Here is the inside of the card.

Cut a piece of Basic Gray and Whisper White card stock. Stamp some bubbles in Dapper Denim and Lucky Limeade in the corners of the Whisper White card stock. Add a strip of the Myths & Magic Designer Series Paper.

I hope you like this project. I love hearing from you please leave your questions or comments below! Now you'll want to hop on over to Heidi's BLOG where I know he will have some awesome to show you! Thanks for stopping in and hopping with us!

03/17/2018

Back with another fun family gift! This is another gift we created for our family members and is part of the "Year Gift" we made. If you would like to see more info about this awesome project we created and what I've shared so far click on the little tag on the left side of my blog labeled Year of Gifts or visit HERE or visit my pinterest board Rubber Redneck Year Gifts to see them all in one spot.

At the beginning of each month; each family has a box to open on the first of the month besides the random days we picked out of each month. In this month box is a fact sheet we put together about the month it includes the following: the history of the month's name, historical things that happened for the month on select dates, and what the month is know for. (It's pretty cool as I am a huge history buff so I love these sheets we created!) Each month is know for a lot of things so we just picked a few things that we thought would be fun to learn about. January Box features the following; National Blood Donor Month, Hot Tea Month, National Soup Month, Letter Writing Week. For the Hot Tea Month and National Soup Month we included tea packets and a can of soup.

What we did:

Blood Donor Month: We put together a fun kit with a band aid and cotton balls to use after donating blood. I put it all in a cellophane bag. Along with the kit I created a tag to go onto the little package. I printed them out onto Whisper White card stock and made a little red cross from our Real Red card stock. Then attached with some retired Pop of Pink Washi Tape.

Here is the PDF Tag I created if you would like to make one. Print it out onto card stock.

National Letter Writing Week: This is the 2nd Week of January. I picked this event for sentimental reasons. Growing up as a kid my grandparents would go south to Florida and we would write letters to my grandparents so I wanted the kids to write letters. The fun part about this I didn't stop and think about it but kids don't do this anymore we have email and cellphones for texting. My cousin's kids had never written a letter before so it was a great learning experience for them. It was so awesome to have a hand in teaching them something.

Here I am reading the letters I received in the mail!! It was so cool to get letters from the kiddos.

I created a little packet using a Manila Envelope. Inside the envelope was paper, pencil and envelopes. I created a tag to print out and attach to the envelope. I used the Better Together Stamp Set to stamp onto the tag and envelope in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. I dressed up the envelope with the Pop of Pink Washi Tape (retired). I had a lot of fun putting this month box together.

Here is the PDF Tag I created if you would like to make one. Print it out onto card stock.

03/16/2018

Fridays I usually share a scrapbook project, album or my daily journal. I didn't get my project completed on time this week so instead I have a fun idea to share using the Color Theory Memories & More Card Pack. Another great way to use those fun cards!

I made this card at OnStage last year. I am super excited to be going again this year. I'll get to see the new Stampin' Up! Catalog coming out in June and see lots of friends! So excited!! This card uses the Colorful Seasons Bundle item #145348 that can be found on page 147 in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog.

This is a really great bundle and I love how it covers all 4 seasons!

Here is one side of the Color Theory Memories & More Card Pack and the cardstock sticker sheets.

Rubber Redneck Quick Shots:

Cut a piece of Island Indigo card stock and create a card base. Take the stamp from Colorful Seasons Stamp Set; ink it Island Indigo and stamp across the card base.

Cut one of the 4 x 6 checkerboard cards from the Color Theory Memories & More Card Pack to fit the front of the card base.

You'll need one of 3 x 4 Old Olive cards from the Theory Memories & More Card Pack. Take the greeting stamp from Colorful Seasons Stamp Set; ink it Old Olive and stamp onto the bottom right corner of the card. Ink the flower stamp from Colorful Seasons Stamp Set; in Old Olive and stamp going across the card. Repeat until you have the amount of flowers you want.

Cut a piece of 3/8 Crushed Curry Mini Chevron Ribbon and attach to the left side of the card.

Take one of the 3 x 4 cards with the flower on it and cut out the flower and attach over the ribbon on the left side.

03/10/2018

I know Valentine's Day is over but great idea for you to do next year! Get a jump start! This is another gift we created for our family members and is part of the "Year Gift" we made. If you would like to see more info about this awesome project we created and what I've shared so far click on the little tag on the left side of my blog labeled Year of Gifts or visit my Pinterest Board HERE. Follow me on Pinterest so you don't miss out on anything!

I need something that didn't include candy (some family member's don't eat candy), would work for everyone and all ages (to make it easier on me). I had seen on pinterest ages ago paper firecrackers that someone had made, inside where rolos so I thought that idea would be perfect for all the males but instead of rolos I did a roll of pennies! The chapstick holder idea I saw something similar on a blog years ago somewhere and had saved it to my idea folder. Which Stampin' Up! obliged me by coming out with a bumble bee and thinlit. I swear they were reading my mind when I was planning out the year gifts! lol Then we printed out the fact sheet for Valentine's Day.

The kids loved them! It's a very inexpensive gift too! I had a little under a $1 into this gift.

Rubber Redneck Quick Shots:

You will need a roll of pennies. Cut a piece of Real Red card stock big enough to fit around a roll of pennies and to over lap the end.

Punch out a piece of Gold Glimmer Paper with the 3/4" Circle Punch.

Cut a piece of Black Pipe Cleaner and wrap around a pen or pencil to curl it.

Punch a hole through the Gold Glimmer Circle and run the piece of Black Pipe Cleaner through it. Then attach to the roll of pennies with a Glue Dot.

This is the Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Stamp Set item #142924. This came out last year and when I saw this I was soo excited as I love Dragonfly's! It is a gorgeous set!!

What makes this set even more awesome the matching Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits item #142749!! I LOVE these!!

We have lots of chap-stick lovers in our family so I thought this idea would be perfect! I thought the Burt's Bee Chap-Stick was perfect for this little gift! lol

Rubber Redneck Quick Shots:

Cut a piece of Whisper White card stock the exact width of the length of the chap-stick you purchase.

Take the bumblee bee image from Dragonfly Dreams Stamp Set; ink it in Daffodil Delight and stamp onto the Whisper White card stock.

Zip a piece of Basic Black card stock through the Big Shot with the Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits die cutting it out. Tip use the Big Shot Die Brush to remove all the little pieces. Then glue over the stamped bumble bee. So cute!

Take the stamp from Tin of Cards Stamp Set (retired) ink it in Tuxedo Black and stamp below the bumble bee.

Ink the stamp from Sealed With Love Stamp Set (retired) in Real Red and stamp below the greeting.

I had some fun Valentine Treat Bags that I got from Target's Dollar Spot. Everything was packaged into the bag and then I created a tag for the outside using the Sealed With Love Bundle that has since retired. I cut a piece of Whisper White card stock. Stamped the greeting in Old Olive and the hearts in Calypso Coral. I die cut out a piece of Real Red card stock using the Big Shot. I attached to the bag with a piece of sending love ribbons (retired).

03/09/2018

Who doesn't love FREE Goodies!!! All you pay is shipping (or you may be eligible for FREE shipping, details below!) Each packet contains a New 2017-2018 Stampin' Up! Catalog, a 2017-2019 In Color Bookmark,Thank you Card, Wish List for you to write down all your must have NEW Stampin' Up! products, a current coupon sheet, new bundles available list, Celebrate the Big 40 with Holly Promotion Sheet, Sample of the New In Color Products!!

Video all about what's in my New Catalog Goodie Package

Everyone that qualified for my Catalog Package should have gotten them in Nov. They went out late this year due to all that was going on with our family and I am finally getting around to doing the blog post! Life is like a box of chocolates you're never going to know what is going to happen! lol

I know your gonna LOVE the new catalog as much as I do!! It is full of LOTS of new must have products!! I am so excited about the new catalog!! It is full of beautiful sample ideas to get those creative juices flowing. It has a handy "tips" on certain projects really love that!

One of my favorite things about the new catalog is the NEW 2017-2019 IN COLORS. I just LOVE getting new in colors every year!! I've included an In Color Book Mark and a hand stamped thank you card!! I want to make sure everyone of my customers get a really good look at the new in-colors and see how AWESOME they are!! You'll be able to see the color of the ink stamped and the die cut piece of card stock in person. NEW this year is the new bundles sheet, and celebrate the big 40 with Holly (SWEET) also a current special coupon sheet (the one in the video has already expired). AWESOME SAUCE!! I appreciate your support so much!!!

How to get the New 2017-2018 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog:

* Join one of my clubs: I offer many different clubs and when you join one you automatically receive the new catalog!! Includes FREE shipping. Limit 1 per year.

* My Preferred Customers: Place a $50 order (before shipping and tax) in the past year; automatically get both the annual and seasonal catalogs sent to them as a thank you for your support! Includes FREE shipping. Limit 1 per year.

* New Customers: Place an on-line order through me of $50 or more (before shipping and tax), use this month's Hostess Code: XHJS7BG3 (Please don’t use the hostess code if your order is $150 or more) and join my newsletter/mailing list. Every month I email out a newsletter with an exclusive Hostess Code, My Customer Promotions, any Stampin' Up! Promotions, Tips and etc. (I don't share your email address with anyone) I will mail you; your complimentary catalog along with all the goodies pictured above!!! Includes FREE shipping. Limit 1 per year.

* Just Want the Catalog and Goodie Package: You can purchase the catalog and goodies for $5 plus shipping (ships out flat rate priority mail). Click the Pay Now Button below. Please be sure to check your PayPal address when checking out and update if need be.This is the address where your catalog will be sent to and I will not pay to resend it.

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All the items I made for the catalog package uses the Eastern Beauty Bundle item #145308 from the Stampin' Up! Main Catalog. You can purchase it through my online store: shoprubberredneck.com or add the image below into your shopping cart.

Every package has 1 different colored card, each card only uses one of the new In Colors on it. Here is a picture of them all together. I shared these for the Stamp Review Crew Blog Hop HERE.

Below close up pictures of the new In Colors this year.

This card features In Color Berry Burst. Love this color a lot! It is very vibrant and very berry. Perfect for Valentine's Day, and Mother's Day.

This card features In Color Tranquil Tide I swooned when I saw this color at Onstage last April. Green is my favorite color and this is so vibrant it looks like emerald green which is my personal fave! Perfect for Christmas, St. Patty's Day and did I say it's AWESOME!!

The card features In Color Fresh Fig. Deep dark plum color very rich and is perfect for Autumn. I love this one too!

This card features In Color Lemon Lime Twist. I was pretty happy to see this color too such a fun summer color I thought. I love it paired with Berry Burst for Birthdays, Christmas, Summer Fun and is an awesome color for cheering people up too! It just makes me smile!

This card features In Color Powder Pink...we all know how I feel about Pink (it's the color I think should be banned lol) however this one is perfect for valentine, wedding, mother's day, and baby's. It is a real soft pink but not sickening like.

Here are the bookmarks I created too. One side shows off the In Colors and the other side lists the product numbers for easy convenient reference. I absolutely LOVE the In Colors this year!!

02/18/2018

Welcome to another The Stamp Review Crew Hop!! We are a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators who will be bringing you lots of ideas for one particular stamp set twice a month!! The 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, you can hop along from one blog to the next gathering all kinds of inspiration for one Stampin' Up! stamp set. Please note the blog doesn't officially start until Monday February 19, 2018 so some of the links may not work.

This hop is featuring the Petal Palette Stamp Set (W) item #145785 (C) item #145788 from the Occasions Stampin' Up! Catalog. This is part of the Petal Passion Suite in the catalog. Such a gorgeous suite! If you are following the hop in order you just arrived from Debra's BLOGwhere she showed you all something fabulous!

Does this look familiar to you? It's the image from the Stampin' Up! Occasion Catalog that someone very talented created to put in this year's catalog. Didn't they do an awesome job; I love it and it hooked me right away on the set! Unfortunately hubby and I both came down with Influenza B that we've been fighting since Feb 5. Hubby is much better; however I am still not quite over it. I thought I would be able to make a project for today's hop but just still to exhausted yet. I didn't want to pull out last minute and cause everyone chaos so I improvised. lol 2018 has been quite the ride for us so far. It is a gorgeous bundle even if I haven't played yet with it ;)

Here is a video from Stampin' Up! showing off the Petal Passion Suite if you haven't seen it yet.

Sorry I didn't have a project to share but everyone's projects are awesome such a talented bunch of stampers that I have the privilege of hopping with!

Now you'll want to hop on over to Kelly'sBLOG where I know she will have something awesome to show you!

02/04/2018

Happy Super Bowl Sunday! This year the Super Bowl is in our state and sadly I am not going to be at it nor our Vikings Team :( But I have an awesome Super Bowl Party Gift idea for you all! This is another gift we created for our family members and is part of the "Year Gift" we made. If you would like to see more info about this awesome project we created and what I've shared so far click on the little tag on the left side of my blog labeled Year of Gifts or visit my Pinterest Board HERE.

This package contained so many fun things and was a blast to make!

I found a Football Bingo Game On-line. I laminated it so Erasable Markers could be used over and over on it, so it could be used year after year. Here is the Bingo Game I found: Download Football-bingo-1-8

When researching about the Super Bowl I found a Trivia Fact sheet that I thought was really interesting and thought the die hard sports fans in our family would like it. This is the website I found them on HERE. You can't print them so you will have to save as an image to your computer and then print them out. The answers are right below each card.

I picked up craft wood sticks at walmart and using my silhouette cut out the football shapes out of card stock and attached to the sticks. I did them in the Viking Colors.

The cups we found at the Party Store they have a section with football theme items. We put the markers, little footballs, and little decorative sticks into the cups.

I made a little football box that would hold juice boxes for the kids. I will have a video on how to make the box soon on my blog.

Here are some close ups.

The ribbon on the sticks is actually ribbon from my grandma's stash she was big into crafts so it had some nostalgia to it giving it to her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

The little football box. I used White Washi Tape on it.

To package the gift I recycled brown bags and used some white washi tape to decorate like a football too. lol

The second gift I have to share was for Groundhogs Day we kept this one pretty simple.

Do you remember this image I shared long ago for our daily journal project? I love this cute image so much I printed it off onto card stock and turned it into a card for groundhog day! Then we printed out the history about groundhogs day. Hubby and I both learned some things we did not know.

The winners for the Christmas Leftover Giveaway are listed below along with what prize you won. I will be emailing you to get your address. Thank you everyone who participated in the giveaway!

01/28/2018

Welcome to another The Stamp Review Crew Hop!! We are a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators who will be bringing you lots of ideas for one particular stamp set twice a month!! The 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, you can hop along from one blog to the next gathering all kinds of inspiration for one Stampin' Up! stamp set. Please note the blog doesn't officially start until Monday January 29, 2018 so some of the links may not work.

If you are following the hop in order you just arrived from Lou's BLOGwhere she showed you all something fabulous!

This is a BONUS BLOG HOP and we are all focusing on Sale-A-Bration item not just one stamp set. This year Stampin' Up! has 2 different levels to earn FREEBIES!! For every $50 or $100 before tax and shipping you can earn one of the AWESOME products from the Sale-a-bration Catalog from Jan. 4- March 31, 2018!! SWEET!!! There are so many awesome items to choose from too! If your like me and have a heck of a time choosing what to get for your free item and want it all then sign up to become a demonstrator! That's what I did ;)

For my project I actually used 3 different Sale-a-Bration Products to create my master piece ;)

This is the cover page for our Daily Memories Album for 2018! Our theme this year is to celebrate me turning 40, so it's focused on 40 (this years theme was all my hubbies idea too). Every year we do a Daily Memories Album....I still am in the middle of 2015 though as far as actually getting the stuff into an albums. I know very bad of us! LOL But we do all year document and take pictures so at least we got that part done. So hubby and I came up with a 40 Bucket List for us to do this year....do you know how hard it is to come up with 40 things that you can actually do/afford too? That was an adventure in it's self! LOL

I used the Sweet Soiree Memories & More card pack, Epic Celebrations Stamp Stamp Set, Celebrate You Thinlits Dies and Dare to Dream Hostess Set to create my layout. I also did some embossing on the cards here and their. I think it is the best cover page I have ever created yet! It uses my two favorite colors green and dark berry purple.

I will have more details about this project on Friday so you'll want to be sure to stop back to find out how I created the project and hear about the humor side of it!

Now you'll want to head on over to Charlet's BLOG where I know you will love her project!!

01/21/2018

Back with the last Christmas Countdown Gift Day 25. If you would like to see all the Christmas countdown gifts check out my Family 25 Days Christmas Countdown Board on pinterest, follow me on pinterest so you don't miss out on anything!

Day 25 Family Frame

Our last gift for the Christmas Countdown was a Family Plaque we created for each Family. We used the first letter of everyone's last name and the silhouette to add the family onto the glass. Each frame and letter was painted in the colors that they told me where either their favorite or to match their homes. We had a hard time getting a good picture of the P and M frames.

This was the card we created to put with the gift. I printed our message on the Whisper White card stock then decorated it using the retired 25 Days and Greetings from Santa Stamp Set. I used some washi tape I had in my stash.

That's the end of the 25 Days of Christmas Countdown! Thank you for following along and I hope it gave you some great ideas. :)

Today's shares Day 24 of the family Christmas countdown gifts. If you would like to see all the Christmas countdown gifts check out my Family 25 Days Christmas Countdown Board on pinterest, follow me on pinterest so you don't miss out on anything!

Day 24 Christmas Eve Box

How about an AMAZING christmas eve box!! I saw this idea on Pinterest and really wanted to do it! I want one of these!! lol Each family received a Christmas Eve Box of goodies. The above pictures is pictures of the 4 Gifts boxes as we did each layer in the box. The boxes over all had the same items with the exception of a few items due to the kids ages, allergies, food was different for those that don't do candy and etc. Then box for the family with the new born I found a really cute santa outfit to put in it. (Crossed my fingers it would fit too when it came time to open this gift). lol We also only did stockings for the kids I found some cute one's at Hobby Lobby. The two siblings that had no kids we did a few different gifts in their boxes to suit them more.

Here are some of the main items in each box.

Santa Plate: Created by us with the Silhouette. We had quite the time creating them. The plates we bought the stupid stuff started chipping off so we had to scramble to find 5 red plates of course Dec. 11 good luck with that around here. Snort Took 3 days to make them because the plates started chipping, and we kept running out of stuff. lol Some of the gifts we wrote messages on the back. Yep the plates we put it on upside down but didn't realize it till we were done with all 4. ROFL My advice do them at least a month ahead. lol

Milk Bottles: We were going to make them but couldn't find enough bottles. While shopping for last minute stuff walmart of all places had the milk for santa. ROFL

Picture Frame Came from Hobby Lobby I did splurge on them I thought they were cool.

This is the card we put in the box. I used retired 25 Days stamp set and Greetings from Santa.

We decorated the inside of each box different too. We used wrapping paper, tissue paper and random christmas filler that we picked up from Hobby Lobby. I die cut out the Santa in Real Red card stock using my Big Shot and the Detailed Santa Thinlits. You can still order that Thinlit too!

Here it is all wrapped with the cute little tag I created using the retired 25 Days Stamp Set.

It was pretty hard to keep this gift a secret I was the most excited about this one. It was a blast to make!